Re: non-root store

2020-12-08 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: > recently I’ve been playing with “guix pack -RR” and I’m very happy to > see how well it works. Now I wonder if we could use the very same > mechanism to wrap guix-daemon and let it manage a store directory that > is not located at /gnu/store. Yesss! > Surely some

Re: non-root store

2020-12-06 Thread Pjotr Prins
On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 03:57:00PM +0100, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: > A common complaint about Guix is that it requires root permissions to > install, which is “scary” and may seem unnecessary on single-user > systems. By wrapping guix-daemon so that it uses file system > virtualization (via user name

non-root store

2020-12-06 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Guix, recently I’ve been playing with “guix pack -RR” and I’m very happy to see how well it works. Now I wonder if we could use the very same mechanism to wrap guix-daemon and let it manage a store directory that is not located at /gnu/store. Surely somebody has already tried this? A common